This post should NOT be taken as some kind of insult towards the mods of the previous subreddit, nor should it be seen as some justification for the dumb crap that Reddit is trying to pull with their API. I am totally against Reddit trying to price gouge people who make their site better.

However, I made a post on the thread that announced the indefinite lockdown that people would not switch sites and ultimately it would harm the community because 75-80% of people wouldn’t switch, and it seems my number was really wrong. It is more like 95%+. I guess I am making this thread to ask if it is worth fracturing the main place for the PoE community to gather (for better or worse)? I think it is worth a legitimate discussion, because I hate the idea that the PoE community is the one getting harmed because of Reddit’s poor decision making. Maybe Reddit will change their tune and this won’t matter, but if they’re not are we just going to stay away from there forever? Unless this site (which is out of control of the mods here) gets massive upgrades then I just don’t ever see it being used at all.

Feel free to give your thoughts and I hope that my post comes across as genuine.

  • multiplicitypoe@pathofexile-discuss.comMEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I think there is a very high proportion of lurkers on this instance. Do you want to guess how many users are registered here right now? 3500. And yet, only <30 posts or so. 1% commenters/posters to lurkers ratio might be about right.

    • esc@pathofexile-discuss.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Interesting. Maybe people are shy to post when there are so few posts on the front page? or maybe they are all bots haha

      • multiplicitypoe@pathofexile-discuss.comMEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I was curious if most are bots too and found some interesting data

        Looking at the list of users by domain

        ubuntu$ users | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
   1563 lemmy.world
   1320 beehaw.org
    172 sh.itjust.works
    164 pathofexile-discuss.com
    149 lemmy.ml
    103 discuss.tchncs.de
     20 lemmy.nz
< censored results below 20 to protect privacy on small instances >
``
It seems most people have main accounts elsewhere. Not sure why someone would try making bot accounts elsewhere to then link them here and...not post? 🤷‍♂️
        • Barbarian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          I have no idea why other people are subscribing, can only talk about myself. I do not actively play PoE, but I’m planning to when I have time later this year. This means I have nothing of value to contribute to this community. I’m subscribed to lurk and get a feel for the lingo and how PoE works.

        • dimeq@pathofexile-discuss.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          For what it’s worth, I made an account last week and wasn’t able to log in until now due to an infinite loading spinner, so there may be some bugs where people actually just can’t post even if they wanted to.

      • DunklerTurm@pathofexile-discuss.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Not sure, if people are shy, of if there’s just nothing to post about right now. As others already stated, it’s mid league and usually there are some item showcases and memes on reddit right now.

        Furthermore, I could think of most of the registrations would be people who are informed about the blackout of Reddit and think, that it’s a good step to go for a new platform, but don’t necessarily want to post stuff about PoE right now. The majority will likely just lurk around Reddit and see, how the situation develops.

        Because why register a new account on a new platform, if the subreddit is back during the next league start? Everything about the current situation is inconvenient in some way and people usually avoid inconvenience until it’s necessary for them to change something (i.e. being able to do new-league-shitposts :P).